Hunter v. United States · ¶51

Unsurprisingly, prosecutors quickly began taking full advantage of this new judicial latitude. See W. Stuntz, The Collapse of American Criminal Justice 259–260 (2011). They threatened layers of additional charges and decades of additional prison time if defendants dared to exercise their right to trial by jury. Ibid. Prosecutors sometimes promised charges against defendants' spouses and parents too. See id., at 260. “[T]hreats [that] would be deemed extortionate” “[o]utside the plea bargaining process” became “par for the course” in our criminal justice system. Ibid.

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